Sister Cities Drive, Cebu City
This is the road from the junction of Cebu Transcentral Highway at Sitio Tupas, Barangay Taptap, then at Proper Taptap (Taboan) ending at the junction in Sitio Tagaytay, Barangay Adlaon.
This is the barangay road that is being substantially used by the residents of Barangays Taptap and Adlaon including the adjacent barangays in their economic activities like trading of flowers, vegetables and other farm products.
The Cebu City Council on November 18, 1998 through Councilors Franklin N. Seno and Ernesto A. Elizondo enacted City Ordinance No. 1737 naming the road as "Sister Cities Drive".
The City Council justifies the naming as the Cebu City Resource Management Training Center located along the road was constantly visited by Sister City Delegates and other tourists, foreign and domestic.
The Training Center is being utilized as the venue of activities in connection with Sister-City related functions. In recognition, these visitors from the Sister Cities all over would be honored and global relationship would be fostered.
It was also practical considering that since its completion, the road has no name and it was best to have it named not to any person but to a diplomatic tradition of the Cebu City Government on entering in a sister city relationship.
The tradition of entering into sister city relationships has started in the 1960's. Among many of the sister city agreements the city has entered were: Salinas, California, entered on January 20, 1964 (that is reason why there is a Salinas Drive, in Barangay Apas), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan entered on February 6, 1969 (the by product of such agreement is the donation of second hand buses in the late 1980's during the first term of Mayor Tomas Osmena).
Aside from agreements with cities outside of the country, Cebu City also has a sister city agreement with Laoag City of the Province of Ilocos Norte, entered on March 25, 1985. There is even a Sister City Agreement with Talisay when it was yet a municipality on February 1, 1991, this was during the term of Mayor Dehlia Tiu.
Cebu City also entered into a Sister City Agreement with Ormoc City, Leyte, formally forging its sisterhood on October 29, 1992. This was after Cebu was the first to respond to the devastating flashflood in Ormoc which happened on November 5, 1991.
Other cities which Cebu City has a sister city agreements are: Honolulu, Hawaii, City of Chicago, Illinois, Territory of Guam and City of Seattle, Washington.
The City Council that approved the road naming ordinance was composed of the following: Renato V. Osmena, Vice Mayor, and Councilors: Franklin N. Seno, Michael L. Rama (later elected as Vice Mayor and now City Mayor), Rogelio V. Osmena, Ronald R. Cuenco, Firmo S. Dayao, Ernesto A. Elizondo, Rodolfo Y. Estella, Procopio E. Fernandez, Eugenio F. Gabuya, Jr., Edgardo C. Labella (now Vice Mayor), Manuel P. Legaspi, Anthony Jones Luy, Laurito N. Malinao, Jose F. Navarro, Ananias G. Ouano, Jocelyn G. Pesquera, Felixberto A. Rosito and Fe Mantua Ruiz.
It was approved by City Mayor Alvin B. Garcia on December 1, 1998. Mayor Alvin, just like many of the past mayors of Cebu City is also a lawyer, he was admitted to the Bar on March 10, 1971. His son Raymond Alvin N. Garcia is also a lawyer admitted to the Bar on April 26, 2007 and is presently the President of the Barangay Councilors League of the Philippines Cebu City Chapter.
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